‘Orange Is the New Black,’ ‘House of Cards’ Earn WGA Awards Noms in TV

“Orange Is the New Black” received four nominations and “House of Cards” three for the WGA Awards in television, which will be presented Feb. 1.

The digitally distributed Netflix series were announced in July as eligible by the WGA. “Orange Is the New Black” earned noms for top comedy series and top new series as well as two in the episodic comedy category, for the pilot teleplay by Liz Friedman and Jenji Kohan and a subsequent episode by Sian Heder.

“House of Cards” was nominated for top drama series and top new series and also received an episodic drama nomination for Beau Willimon.

Also nominated in the drama series category were AMC’s “Breaking Bad” and “Mad Men,” Showtime’s “Homeland” and CBS’ “The Good Wife,” which was the only broadcast network show to garner mentions in the drama categories. For comedy series, the other nominees were NBC’s “30 Rock,” ABC’s “Modern Family,” NBC’s “Parks and Recreation” and HBO’s “Veep.”

The three remaining nominations for new series were FX’s “The Americans,” Showtime’s “Masters of Sex” and “Ray Donovan.”

In addition to its drama series nomination (a category that the show has won two straight years), “Breaking Bad” scored half of the six noms in episodic drama, for Thomas Schnauz, Gennifer Hutchinson and Peter Gould. Other episodic drama noms went to “The Good Wife” (Robert King and Michelle King) and “Masters of Sex” (Michelle Ashford).

“Modern Family” matched “Orange” with two episodic comedy nominations, for Paul Corrigan & Brad Walsh and for Elaine Ko. The others went to Michael Schur and Alan Yang for “Parks and Recreation” and to Jack Burditt and Robert Carlock for “30 Rock.”

Among the series not receiving WGA nods were “Arrested Development,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Game of Thrones,” “Girls,” “Louie,” “Sons of Anarchy” and “The Walking Dead.” Last year, “Louie” won best comedy series, while “Girls” won for best new series.

Six animation nominations were split evenly among “The Simpsons” and “Futurama.” Two projects were nominated for WGA honors in adapted longform: “Killing Kennedy” (Kelly Masterson) and “Muhammad Ali’s Greatest Fight” (Shawn Slovo). Though submissions were received in original longform, the WGA said none were nominated in a category won last time by “Hatfields & McCoys.”